Why didn’t I think of that? 23 Mar 2009 Kate Devitt is so much better a teacher than I am (and she’s smarter, better educated and more attractive a person, but let’s deal with just one of my insecurities at a time, hey?). I wish I had thought to teach students about Turing Machines like this. Education
Accommodationism Accommodating Science overview 13 Mar 2014 I have done quite a lot of blogging under this heading lately so I thought it might be useful to get all the posts used in order: On beliefs Why do believers believe silly things? The function of denialism Why do believers believe THOSE silly things? The “developmental hypothesis” of… Read More
Education Science Communication and the Business Model 22 Mar 2009 There are a lot of folk who think they have a handle on how to communicate science to the general public, and a lot of folk, mostly scientists, who think nobody else does. But I was reading Carl Zimmer’s twittering today, about Rebecca Skoot getting a column gig for a… Read More
Education On journals and citation styles 31 Oct 2009 We live, you might have noticed, in an electronic age, right? So why, for heaven’s sake, don’t journals provide either a named Endnote or similar style for their journals? Springer in particular are very bad at this – they give relatively vague and ambiguous instructions via examples, but fail to… Read More
XP is easy to simulate. Just get a bunch of students with multifarious viral infections to move veeerrryyy sllloooowwwlllyyy. Thony, you are way too late. She is very happily married.
XP is easy to simulate. Just get a bunch of students with multifarious viral infections to move veeerrryyy sllloooowwwlllyyy. Thony, you are way too late. She is very happily married.
I mentioned it on my comments on Kate’s blog as well, but if you’re interested in dynamic Turing machines, I have a few here, in flash: http://inquiry.mcdaniel.edu/turing/ I think that her technique has great value, as any kind of physical activity in a classroom is likely to have cognitive payoff, but these can supplement such activity nicely.
I mentioned it on my comments on Kate’s blog as well, but if you’re interested in dynamic Turing machines, I have a few here, in flash: http://inquiry.mcdaniel.edu/turing/ I think that her technique has great value, as any kind of physical activity in a classroom is likely to have cognitive payoff, but these can supplement such activity nicely.
I mentioned it on my comments on Kate’s blog as well, but if you’re interested in dynamic Turing machines, I have a few here, in flash: http://inquiry.mcdaniel.edu/turing/ I think that her technique has great value, as any kind of physical activity in a classroom is likely to have cognitive payoff, but these can supplement such activity nicely.